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press release - Monogram



MONOGRAM

MONOGRAM is not an electronic music band.

Like a lot of people, MONOGRAM have listened to a lot of indie-rock music in their teenage years: Sonic Youth, Labradford, Hood, Radiohead... and like a lot of people MONOGRAM have appreciated home-listening electronic music since the late nineties.

Emerging as a trio in November 2001 operating on the edge of electronic music, post-rock and classical music, today MONOGRAM is a duo whose live performances are a unique sonic experience.

'We don't come from an electronic culture and therefore like the fact that everything on the record was coming from instruments' say MONOGRAM.

Their first album has been recorded sitting on the floor in their bedrooms [the best position to record music according to them] in the house they used to share. Ok, nothing impressive so far you will tell us. Well you're right except that they didn't use any computers, sequencers or samplers for the recording of this album. All sounds come from instruments [guitars, bass, keyboards...] recorded on an 8-tracks digital recorder. Most of the loops have been actually created from these instruments with endless delay effects [cf. track 'monodeique']. They also used a little Yamaha keyboard called 'Portasound' from which they have extracted sounds and distorted them using a guitar multi-effect.

All the beats were crafted on two antic drums machines from which they also reworked and recorded the sounds directly onto the digital 8-tracks. Everything from recording to mixing has been done at their house.

The result is actually amazing given the conditions under which they have recorded these tracks. But it also endows this record with its rawness and energy, and all these emotions.

MONOGRAM are recommended for fans of Mum, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Yann Tiersen, and Brian Eno... Ranging between electronica and space-rock, childish and delicate melodies are combined with beats for a moving and sensitive music.

MONOGRAM are currently working on a new project, a cooperation with a string section of the Rennes National Chamber Orchestra.

release:Monogram
label: Peter I'm Flying!